Are you developing a medical device or a digital health solution?
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\r\nThe Human Health by Design program supports early‑stage teams in designing, prototyping, and validating solutions grounded in real clinical needs.
\r\nThis 6‑month program (June–December 2026) combines field immersion, user‑centered design, and multidisciplinary expertise to accelerate the adoption of impactful, safe, and clinically relevant technologies.
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\r\nWhat the program offers\r\n
Open-source hardware can play a unique role for the semiconductor industry in the age of sustainable AI. It can enable design reuse, foster collaboration, and support workforce development. ESP (Embedded Scalable Platforms) is an open-source research platform for system-on-chip (SoC) design that combines a modular architecture with an agile design methodology. The ESP architecture simplifies the design and prototyping of heterogeneous chips with multiple RISC-V processor cores and dozens of loosely coupled accelerators, all interconnected by a scalable network-on-chip. The ESP methodology promotes system-level design while accommodating different specification languages and design flows.
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\r\nESP's capabilities have enabled a small team, primarily composed of graduate students, to realize two SoCs of increasing complexity, each within a few months. Conceived as a heterogeneous system integration platform and refined through years of teaching at Columbia University, ESP is well suited to advance collaborative engineering across the open-source hardware community.
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\r\nThis talk will be followed by a standing lunch in BC420 from 12:15 to 13:30.
Thesis Director: Prof. H. Altug,
\r\nBiotechnology and Bioengineering doctoral program
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